Writing to Real Fields in Automatic Processing Tables

[George]

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On Behalf Of Bob Stockler
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:58 PM
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Subject: Writing to Real Fields in Automatic Processing Tables

 
Ken Brody wrote (on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:16:17PM -0400):

| Note that the only reason this is allowed by filePro is that the
| original versions of filePro didn't disallow it, and too many
| people wrote (broken) code that depends on this (broken) ability.
| Disallowing it would "break" the (already broken, but "working")
| code that depends on this.

Many years ago, in a land far away, there was a filePro presence
on CompuServe, and on that forum . . .

  It took many of us (some still on *this* list) quite a bit of time
  to convince another subscriber to this list (George Simon) that it
  wasn't "right" to "write" to REAL fields in Automatic Processing
  Tables.

Anyone on this list (including George) is encouraged to confirm or
deny/correct my (admittedly decreasing as age increases) memories.

Bob

PS - The only time I wrote to a REAL field in Automatic Processing
     was in a work-around situation where I was using Bob Snapp's
     "Address Matching - Address Correction" software.  filePro's
     limits of the number lines in a processing table at the time
     prevented me from putting all of Snapp's code in the input
     table, so I put it in the automatic table, accesed it there,
     and went back to the input table.  That code in the automatic
     table was never reached unless it was accessed via the input
     table that required it.
 
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Yes, that was maybe 15+ years ago, and to this day that program is running
in a very busy inventory module with no ill-effects.
As a matter of fact, if I were to take that "write" (write doesn't really
work anymore in automatic) away from the automatic table, I would
immediately get a call telling me that the program was broken.
That's the only time I've used "write" in automatic and it was done to
overcome a filePro shortcoming (automatic refreshing of fields in a browse
window) and I would not hesitate to use it again if it was the only way I
could find to solve a problem.